Probably this subject would be better dealt with on macports-dev?  Or
at least in addition to here...

Sorry, I have no other helpful comments!

Scott

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:24 AM, James Gregurich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ok. so what is the guidance on this point? I need to move ahead.
>
> Is it consistent with the design of macports for me to invoke its included 
> config.guess script to get the triplet for the host? If so, what would be the 
> proper means of invoking it. in the tcl scripts?
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:22 PM, James Gregurich wrote:
>
>>
>> archs =  armv6 & armv7.
>>
>> triplet to compile icu for iOS:  arm-apple-darwin.
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure how cross-compiling works in the general case, but the way 
>> Apple has it set up for their stuff, you use the compiler from the sdk. I 
>> think the default for iOS is currently llvm-gcc. However, it wouldn't be 
>> surprised if it was switched to clang for xcode 4. Bottom line: you 
>> explicitly pick the target sdk and a compiler in that sdk.
>>
>> The question is....is there a generic way to derive a triplet from the sdk 
>> and compiler....or should one be forced to supply part of the triplet as a 
>> configuration option if he isn't targeting specifically an iOS sdk?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 26, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>>
>>> On 2011-01-26 22:11 , James Gregurich wrote:
>>>> just a thought.... Is there a way to deduce the information for the 
>>>> triplet by invoking the target's compiler without having to actually run 
>>>> code on the target device?
>>>
>>> I don't have the iPhone SDK installed, but as far as I know the compiler
>>> would be arm-apple-darwin10-gcc, right?
>>>
>>> Usually you need to know the triplet to invoke the right cross-compiler...
>>>
>>> Rainer
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